When I make Mexican rice I like to brown the rice first in some peanut oil and then add the liquid and whatever else, chopped green onion, bell pepper, chopped tomato. I also make refries beans with HEB charro canned beans fried and mashed in an iron skillet and a little melted lard. Yesterday I got this bright idea to use lard to brown the rice for my Mexican rice. Wrong decision. The final product tasted good but was the consistency of cornmeal mush.......Don't use lard to brown rice.......
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I've used lard plenty of times to make rice, and it turns out fine. Mushy rice is usually a result of too much water. Too much fat can result in greasy rice. What's your recipe?
HTownAg98 said:
I've used lard plenty of times to make rice, and it turns out fine. Mushy rice is usually a result of too much water. Too much fat can result in greasy rice. What's your recipe?
Your probably right. I experimented and used onion, some chopped GBP, RBP, Red jalapeno, green Jal, poblano, and fresh hatch and chopped carrots, chopped tomato. All the liquid in those added to the 2 Cup liquid to 1 cup rice so I probably should have used a 1 3/4 cup liquid ........or more rice
2:1 is too much water in the first place imo
Rattler12 said:HTownAg98 said:
I've used lard plenty of times to make rice, and it turns out fine. Mushy rice is usually a result of too much water. Too much fat can result in greasy rice. What's your recipe?
You're probably right. I experimented and used onion, some chopped GBP, RBP, Red jalapeno, green Jal, poblano, and fresh hatch and chopped carrots, chopped tomato. All the liquid in those added to the 2 Cup liquid to 1 cup rice so I probably should have used a 1 3/4 cup liquid ........or more rice
I normally use 1 3/4 cups of water for one cup of rice. 1 1/2 cups is where I'd start.
HTownAg98 said:
I've used lard plenty of times to make rice, and it turns out fine. Mushy rice is usually a result of too much water. Too much fat can result in greasy rice. What's your recipe?
A couple of months ago, I screwed up making (Jasmine) rice.
I used a measuring cup to measure out two cups of rice into a bowl, washed it, and put it in a rice steamer. I then added three cups of water.
The problem was that the first measuring cup I used was a half cup and then added water with a full cup measuring cup.
So I actually used one cup of rice to three cups of water.
I had to POUR it out.
GAC06 said:
2:1 is too much water in the first place imo
For Jasmine rice, I use 1 1/2 to 1.